Hong Kong
CNN
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Associates and kinfolk of Hong Kong mannequin Abby Choi on Tuesday paid their ultimate respects on the scene the place police say they discovered what are believed to be the socialite’s dismembered physique elements, public broadcaster RTHK reported.
Choi’s mom and widower lit incense and introduced Taoist paper choices utilized in conventional funeral rites exterior the village home within the metropolis’s northern outskirts, RTHK mentioned.
Choi’s ex-husband Alex Kwong, 28, his brother Anthony, 31, and their father, Kwong Kau, 65, are charged together with her homicide. Alex Kwong’s mom Jenny Li, 63, is charged with perverting the course of justice, RTHK reported Monday.
All 4 had been denied bail, the Kowloon Metropolis Magistrates’ Courtroom dominated Monday, in response to RTHK. They’re but to enter a plea.
On Sunday, investigators recognized a cranium, a number of ribs and hair, believed to be Choi’s stays, in a big chrome steel soup pot, police mentioned. Different physique elements, together with Choi’s torso and arms, stay lacking. The police investigation stays ongoing.
It follows a police investigation that started Wednesday after Choi, 28, was reported lacking. Two days later, elements of her physique had been discovered on the home within the metropolis’s Tai Po district, police mentioned. A meat slicer, an electrical noticed, and a few clothes had been additionally discovered on the residence, police mentioned.
Choi, who had extra greater than 100,000 followers on Instagram, just lately appeared because the digital cowl mannequin for luxurious journal L’Officiel Monaco and attended this 12 months’s Paris Style Week.
The case has gripped the town as grisly particulars of the investigation dominated headlines in native media and 1000’s of individuals left condolences on Choi’s social media accounts.
In a separate case, Choi’s ex-husband appeared in court docket on Tuesday, for allegedly leaping bail on costs of stealing jewellery between Might 2013 and January 2015, RTHK reported. Alex Kwong had pleaded not responsible to seven counts of theft, however skipped his trial, RTHK mentioned.
The case was adjourned Tuesday and Kwong was taken again into custody, in response to RTHK.
